Tour to Scandinavia, Portugal and Switzerland

In November 2012, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker travelled to Northern and Southern Europe with a German-Hungarian-French programme. The tour was particularly exciting because of the performances in the new concert halls in Scandinavia and Finland which had just opened a few years earlier.

What to do with a free day? Our Philharmonic football team decided to play a little match against the Gulbenkian orchestra. We won 6-1, goals scored by Zoltan Almasi, Simon Rössler, Niko Römisch and Andreas Ottensamer (3!). Well done!

Helsinki Horn Party- horn players from the Helsinki Phil and Finnish Radio prepared a finnish banquet for us after the concert in their horn room, including home made Moose Sausage!! Even a certain conductor, who does not play horn, was invited!